Lucy Valerie Graham

State of Peril

Race and Rape in South African Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Considering fiction from the colonial era to the present, State of Peril offers the first sustained, scholarly examination of rape narratives in the literature of a country that has extremely high levels of sexual violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 455g
• ISBN-13: 9780190256418
• ISBN-10: 0190256419
• Artikelnr.: 47863130

Autorenporträt

Lucy Valerie Graham is a Research Fellow at the University of the Western Cape.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction
* 1. Danger and Desire: Rape and Seduction in the Colonial Imagination
* 2. "Like a White Man": "Black Peril", Print Culture and Political
Voice in the Making of the Union
* 3. "A 'Black' or a 'White' Peril?": Writing the Melancholy
(Alter)Nation
* 4. Restaging Rape: Black Writing and Sexual Apartheid
* 5. "History Speaking": Sexual Violence and Post-Apartheid Narratives
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index